Power-converter



(No Model.)

F. M. BOOKWALTER,

POWER CONVERTER.

Patented May 9, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. BOOKWALTER, QF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

POWER-CONVERTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,462, dated May 9, 18 82.

Application filed March 31, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. BOOKWAL- TER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Power-Converters for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is designed especially as a power-converter for wind-engines where the pump-rod has a vertically-reciprocating motion, and where it is desirable to use the power of the wheel for running small machinery, such as grist-mills, corn-shellers, and the like; but at the same time it is capable of use in all machinery where it is necessary to convert reciprocating into rotary motion.

The novelty consists in the construction, combinations, and arrangements of the parts, as will be hereinafter set forth and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved converter-engine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The samereference-letters indieat e likeparts in both figures.

In any suitable frame-work, A, is journaled a shaft, B, upon which is keyed or otherwise fastened the driving-wheel G. This wheel may be a plain belt-wheel, as shown, or it may be a sprocket-wheel or a gear-wheel, as desired, for communicating motion to the machinery to be run. Upon the same shaft B, which I designate as the driving-shaft, is keyed or otherwise fastened a pinion or small gearwheel, D. Also jonrnaled suitably upon the frame A are two shafts, E and F, upon which are respectively secured the two larger gearwheels G and H, which mesh with the smaller wheel D, as shown. Adjacent to the wheels G and H, upon the shafts E and F, are keyed the two ratchet-wheels land J, one upon each shaft, as represented.

K is the pump-rod or reciprocating prime mover, with its lower end pivoted to a vibrating centrally-pivoted beam, L, from the eiijds of which depend suitable pivoted-link beans or connections, M N.

In any properly-construeted earriers'or links 0 and P are pivoted dogs R and S, which are adapted to engage with the ratchet-wheels I and J. In the one instance I have shown the link M pivoted directly to a rear projection of the dog B, such being the improved construction for which H. Croft, Jr., has recently filed an application for patent, and to which I here make no claim. In the other case the link N is pivoted simply to the end of the dogcarrier P.

From the above construction it will be readily understood that as the pump-rod vibrates the beam L the links M and N will alternately rise and fall, and so alternately advance and retract their respective dogs. Supposing the link N to be ascending, the dog S will be in engagement with and will cause the revolution of the ratchet J and gear-wheel H. The latter will revolve the pinion D, and with it the driving-shaft and wheel 0. Atthe same time the link M will be descending and the dog It be carried back. The wheel I will be revolved bythe pinion D in the direction indieated by the arrow. Now, as this movement of the links M and N is reversed the dog It will become locked with its ratchet and the wheel G will become the acting wheel upon the pinion D and the wheel II will be the idle wheel. Thus the driving-wheel will be kept continuously revolving in one direction and the wheels G and H will be alternately acting and idle wheels.

I do not purpose to limit myself to the preelse construction or arrangement of the parts or the location of the wheels upon their shafts; but,

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a power-converter, the combination, with a vibrating-beam actuated by a reciprocating prime mover and a driving wheel whose shaft is provided with a pinion or gearwheel, of intermediate gear-wheels meshing with the aforesaid pinion on the driving-shaft, and connecting mechanism uniting the aforesaid gear-wh'eels with the opposite ends, re spectively, of the vibrating beam, whereby said geanwheels become alternately acting and idle wheels, and so cause the continuous revolution of the driving-wheel, substantially as described. I

2. In a power-converter, the combination of the driving-pinion D, gear-wheels G and H, ratchets I and J, dogs R and S, links M and N, vibrating beam L, and reciprocating rod K, the parts being constructed and united substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: FRANCIS M. BOOKWALTER.

JERE. F. TWOHIG, Gus. A. MEYER.

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